Rules on hitter center?

[Dirk]

What are these fouls that I think are ok to not be called on us? We got a flag for delay of game. What I said if that flag was going to be thrown, then the flags against the other team needs to be thrown. What I what is an even interpretation of the rules. Call everything is fine, just do it on both sides of the ball. What happened is fouls on the northside of the field went 4 to 1 against us. It is where we got a few ghost calls, can't find it on the tapes and the officials when asked who it was on, just shrugged and said they did know. When you see they can't keep track of the downs, and don't know the penalty markoffs, I am guilty of looking deeper at other calls. You all agree that some of my complaints are not warranted, but if it were just a ghost call or a non call, it would not be a big deal, but it was the sum total. You can pick every call and non-call apart individually, but not the point at all.

On Clipping rule 2-5, 1 says "clipping is a block against an opponent when initial contact is from behind, at or below waist, and not against a player who is a runner or pretending to be a runner." Hmm tackled from behind at about knee level...seems to match the discription. It doesn't say not a foul if the kids trips into the back. But Art. 3 does say it is not clipping unless the official doesn't see initial contact. So, I guess you have your out. Congrats

The losing team has also lodged complaints now. The league had an observer at the game as part of a coaches review, and they concurred with the complaints, so maybe something will happen to prevent this crew from returning. The league reports to the officials union on these type of things, and there is some sort of discipline at the union level. So, maybe they will have more than just a slap on the wrist for screwing up a youth game, I can only hope.